[Talk-GB] Electric car charging points

[Robert Whittaker (OSM lists)]

On Thu, 16 May 2019 at 21:31, BD <dzidek23 at tlen.pl> wrote:
> Some time ago I came across "National Charge Point Registry", which can be found here:
> https://data.gov.uk/dataset/1ce239a6-d720-4305-ab52-17793fedfac3/national-charge-point-registry
>
> I wonder if we could import that data into OSM? I'm sure that it would be useful to the greater community and general public.

As it happens, I've just started having a play with this data. I
haven't got a full comparison tool working yet, but you can get an
idea of how the NCR data compares to what we currently have in OSM at
https://osm.mathmos.net/chargepoint/progress/ (click on one of the
postal areas on the map to see that data for it).

It appears that the NCR data is not all that complete, and I'm also
not sure the locations are accurate enough for a direct import. Given
other micro-mapped features near charging points, we'd want to get the
locations relative to them correct. There are also charge-point
locations in the NCR that are 10's of meters away from where they
actually are on the ground. (Some examples at
https://osm.mathmos.net/chargepoint/progress/NR/#15/52.6253/1.2994 . )
There is certainly scope for using the data to improve coverage and
detail in OSM though.

Robert.

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Robert Whittaker